Virtual Reality is 45+ years old. In 1992, they were claiming that affordable VR would be ready in a couple years.
It is not affordable over 30 years later, nor did it take over, despite billions over billions of dollars sunk into it.
Why?
Because current engineers think that the brain is just a pair of eyes connected to a processing unit. It is not. The brain is connected to an entire body in ways that we are still learning about.
Back in the 1960s when personal computers and information technology were being formed by a team of psychologists, electrical engineers and mathematicians, they knew that computers needed physical access to themselves. They understood that as corny as it sounds, humans are One: one brain, one body. It’s all combined and intricately connected.
This is how they came up with the mouse, an input device that is still to this day the most accurate way to do well, most things on a computer. Why? Because it utilizes the wrist, a magnificent and ultra precise tool that created all the arts in the world.
What I mean is that human beings will never dissociate from their meat envelope. That is just how we’re literally wired. Full body tactile feedback will always be superior to zero tactile feedback because we’re so good at it. Thousands of years of experience on the resume.
Ever realized how incredibly fast our skins feel a change of temperature? Like, it’s basically instant. Our lives are all about tactile feedback, if you think about it: receiving a kiss, opening a door, tasting a beverage… It never stops.
This is why VR keeps failing. It disconnects us. That will not change and we won’t either.